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Stan Livermore (in blue) and Pastor Kevin Beebe of Spirit Alive Church are clearing the Windchime Garden grounds in preparation for growing produce for the Grace Lutheran Welcome Center this season. After this photo was taken, the fence in the background was painted a mural by students and staff at Lincoln Middle School.

To address an unpainted fence on the east side of the property, volunteers reached out to Lincoln Middle School staff last fall. Tatianah Brooks, left, a seventh grader, examines some of her work.

A Spirit Alive Church volunteer crew is working to clear Windchime Garden for volunteers who will be growing produce for the Grace Lutheran Welcome Center this season.

Margie Breckenfeld (left) and Ann Livermore of Spirit Alive Church are lead volunteers overseeing the redesigned Windchime Garden, 2011 57th St., where products are grown for use at the Grace Lutheran Welcome Center.

What do you get when you combine a local nonprofit community garden, two churches, and a middle school?

A fresh look for an urban space and fresh produce to feed those in need.

This is what happens at Windchime Garden, 2011 57th St.

The garden is one of seven lots owned by Eatin’-Kenosha Garden, a non-profit community garden. The project was started in 2013 by Andy Berg from Kenosha.

After Garden of Eatin ‘acquired the current property in 2015 from a county tax return, Somers 4-H members built a picket fence and Eagle Scouts built raised beds, Berg said.

As with the other garden properties they manage, Berg and his family grew produce for local pantries at Windchime Garden, but recently it took “a little TLC,” he said.

At this point, the needs of the ward and church groups at Spirit Alive Church, 8760 37th Ave., and the Grace Lutheran Church Welcome Center, 2006 60th St., came together.

Spirit Alive Church members volunteer at the Welcome Center, which provides hot meals and a pantry to those in need.

“We noticed that fresh fruit and vegetables were missing from the menu items we served. To correct this, we contacted Andy Berg, ”said Ann Livermore, member of Spirit Alive and co-organizer of the garden.